FactCheck: Who’s got the better record on youth unemployment?
“It’s a sensitive topic for a Government that scrapped Education Maintenance Allowance for teenagers who wanted to stay in education, and axed Labour’s flagship back-to-work
FactCheck: Cameron slips up on employment figures
The PM battled to explain the grim news today that unemployment has suffered its largest quarterly increase in two years, jumping by 80,000 between May and June. As he looked to private sector
FactCheck: Are the Tories gerrymandering the election boundaries?
Calls for political reform spun out of the expenses scandal of 2009 and hurtled towards last year’s general election, with all three major parties promising change in their manifestos.
FactCheck: The Met’s bombshell bill for the London riots
After the funeral of Mark Duggan today, whose death sparked the riots a month ago, it is understood that police forces from Cornwall to Northumbria will finally leave the capital – ending
FactCheck: No room for complacency on homelessness
Homelessness figures are still low compared to the high they reached in 2003 – but they’re already climbing sharply.
FactCheck: Why less is more when taxing the super rich
Twenty leading economists have called on the government to scrap its 50p tax rate for high earners, warning that it will do “lasting damage” to the economy. Is the 50p tax rate worth
FactCheck: Were the rioters a ‘feral underclass’?
Feral Underclass is a humdinger of a phrase from Ken Clarke, but what does it mean? Previously, David Cameron lumped the rioters together as “pockets of our society that are not only broken,
FactCheck: Nadine Dorries steps up abortion row
Nadine Dorries’ latest charge is that the British Pregnancy Advisory Service’s (Bpas) central London clinic only has an hour a week that it dedicates to counselling sessions. And if you
FactCheck: Will Free Schools serve the deprived masses or the privileged few?
Nick Clegg claims half of the 24 Free Schools opening are in the 30 per cent worst off areas in England. Is he right – what are these schools and are they opening in deprived areas? FactCheck
FactCheck: Is Britain Nato’s top gun in Libya?
Britain “won’t be left behind” in the grab for Libyan oil contracts, William Hague said today, as world leaders flocked to Paris to plot out the new Libya. And why should we?
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